Venice Incognito
Masks in the Serene Republic
Fascinating and richly developed. Venice Incognito is a contribution both to urban studies and to the carnivalesque.—Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto “Venice Incognito is a brilliant reassessment of Venetian carnival and the peculiar phenomenon of masking in early modern Venice. Johnson's wide-ranging, insightful, and imaginative scholarship is matched by his fluid and accessible writing style. This book is that all-too-rare commodity: a scholarly page-turner.” —Patricia Fortini Brown, author of Private Lives in Renaissance Venice “This is a beautiful book about a strange subject: the custom among Venetian aristocrats of wearing mas…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-26771-8
- EAN: 9780520267718
- Produktnummer: 10179291
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.2 cm 662 g
- Abbildungen: 52 b-w photographs
- Gewicht: 662
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
James H. Johnson is Professor of History at Boston University and the author of the award-winning book, Listening in Paris (UC Press).
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